It has been many years since I was even around a wood burning stove and that was also used to cook on. My great uncle lived off grid and that is all he used. I have a fireplace that needs work right now as I am not using it till I get it checked out. It needs some work and I want to fix it to cook in as well. I do know that pine is not good to burn in a wood stove nor a fireplace. You can buy things to burn in the fireplace to help prevent creosote buildup. We use it in the fireplace. It has helped but been awhile since we used it. Our house is heated by baseboard gas heat. But if we loose electric then we have no themistate. So would not be able to maintain temps. Looking at the possibility of putting that on solar but still working on getting the air conditioner replaced. Once that is done and we have the themistate changed over to one to control both heat and air. I want to get that switched to solar to run both heat and air. Not sure how we will do that yet. We have a non vented gas heater in garage for when I am washing clothes. It does not require a vent and works really well.
